Vote for Fast Large Assemblies and Drawings

This is the best time of the year to make our voice heard by the Product Definition Teams at SOLIDWORKS. Voting for the SOLIDWORKS World Top Ten Ideas is a civic right for all users who pay for subscription. I would call it also a civic duty!

Here is a short list of ideas targetinglarge assemblies and drawings performance. Please read and (if you agree with me) vote on them:

I was just discussing the video of the large assembly drawings loading in the background with a coworker, and it got me thinking. If I'm remembering right they merged detached drawing functionality into normal drawings and then had the assembly load in the background. So, I'm not saying that it didn't take them a lot of time and effort. But, they may have taken advantage of existing functionality and merged it back into regular drawings to make them awesome.

Now, let's think about existing functionality and how that could be harnessed to load large assemblies. I'm specifically thinking they could do the same thing with the speed pack technology for large assemblies. I'm not sure how it'd work, but I'd like to open a large assembly and immediately be able to move the assembly around, take measurements and such, while it continues to load in the background. Is this something you think is possible?

I was just discussing the video of the large assembly drawings loading in the background with a coworker, and it got me thinking. If I'm remembering right they merged detached drawing functionality into normal drawings and then had the assembly load in the background. So, I'm not saying that it didn't take them a lot of time and effort. But, they may have taken advantage of existing functionality and merged it back into regular drawings to make them awesome.

Now, let's think about existing functionality and how that could be harnessed to load large assemblies. I'm specifically thinking they could do the same thing with the speed pack technology for large assemblies. I'm not sure how it'd work, but I'd like to open a large assembly and immediately be able to move the assembly around, take measurements and such, while it continues to load in the background. Is this something you think is possible?

Great idea. That was actually what this forum voted as the runner-up for this year's Top 10 idea.

Mind you, you can already rotate/ zoom/ pan as the assembly loads. Getting measurement, sectioning and other operations should be possible soon, I hope, using only the graphics data that is already loaded.

Thanks to Rob Edwards for saving the Top 10 ideas and sharing them with us.